davidgatti / iot-home-automation

🅿️ A simple project that uses a Particle to control a garage remote over the internet

IoT-Garage-Opener

The problem: many people under on roof and just one remote for the garage. Solution? Connect the remote to the internets and write an iOS app to trigger the remote over the internet.

It started as a simple project ;) and now you can:

• Store the whole history of open and closes thanks to Parse.com
• Store the amount of uses
• Store the state of the door
• Detect if the physical remote was used, not yet saved on Parse.com

URLs

• https://www.hackster.io/davidgatti/garage-opener
• https://twitter.com/dawidgatti
• http://parse.com
• http://particle.io

How to add seecrets to the project

In this project we are usign Particle and Parse. Two products that have cloud based services. For authntication they use tokesn and IDs. For safte reasons I can't attach thoes secrets to the proejct. Thus the requirment of the Secrets.plist file.

The gif above shows you how to add key to the plist file.

For Particle you will need the following keys

• ParticleToken
• ParticleDeviceID

For Parse you will need the following keys

• ParseAppID
• ParseClientID

Save, compile and enjoy :)

The End

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iot-home-automation's Issues

Display water usage

Finalize the flow for a full on Home Automation app

Add navigation controllers when they are needed to have a nice user interface flow with minimal use of code.

Work on the Today Widget

Since I'm having an issue with my Apple ID. I can't finish this widget since i need App Groups.

Tutorial with good info: http://www.appcoda.com/app-extension-programming-today/

Add Water Consumption View

Save the user after he or she takes a photo

Right now the user is created when they write down a user name. Not cool. because if they won't go thru he whole process, then we end up with incomplete user accounts.

Create a Parse entry when we save the user image

While creating a new account we need to save the date to Pars only once we reached the photo view and are ready to save the image.

Convert Date String to NSDate

Displaying a raw string is lame, it is time to convert the string in to proper object so the app can display the date based on the system locale.

Add Navigation controller

In the login section section

Add button press detection

We need to detect the physical button press on the remote to make sure we can have the most up to date state of the door garage.

The only missing part would be to detect if someone open the door manually, but right now this will be impossible with this configuration.

Parse.com Winding down and will be retired on 1/28/2017

is there a backup plan when parse retires?

http://blog.parse.com/announcements/moving-on/

Upgrade to Swift 1.2

Make a User Setting page

Add the ability for the user to change his account information.

Add a video tutorial how to add a plist

Lets make sure there is no confusion how to add a plist to Xcode

New account needs to reuse the Setting Photo picker

When creating a new account the code needs to reuse the view that allows the user to take a photo. So we can streamline the whole process and reuse elements.

Clean up the code

• Setting class.
• Main Class

Pull all the data on the first screen

Lets make sure we are getting all the data at the loading screen, so when we transition to the main app view we have everything in memory.

Make a Better Launch Screen

Make sure the launch screen is mimicking the actual working screen so the user thinks the app is launching way faster.

Detached secrets from AppSettings

The app is growing and now we need to detach the secrets from the AppSetting gas to make the app more organized.

Fix the rotated avatar image

ID missing after registration

When the user registers for the firs time the idea wasn't saved because of the when the AppSettings singleton was fired the first time.

Sending data directly to Parse.com

Why data is send to heroku server "https://particle2parse.herokuapp.com" when it can be send directly to Parse?

App crashes when freshly installed

The app crashes when you install it for the first time.

Replace settings with a View

Use a view to ask the user to write their name after they run the app for the first time.

Switch to the Parse User Object

Start using the Parse User Object when we create a new user. The did the leg work, so lets use what they created :)

Create a general purpose Error view

One place to display potential errors.

Store data in the cloud with Parse

Replace Particle storage with Parse storage to have permanent storage and also allow us to store the whole history of the garage door.

User Defaults are saved wrongly

The userID and the userName are flipped.